This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.109 release. There are 91 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

Responses should be made by Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:37:59 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.6.109-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.6.109-rc1

David Laight David.Laight@ACULAB.COM minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once

David Laight David.Laight@ACULAB.COM minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp()

David Laight David.Laight@ACULAB.COM minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones

David Laight David.Laight@ACULAB.COM minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo < hi test in clamp()

David Laight David.Laight@ACULAB.COM minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp()

David Laight David.Laight@ACULAB.COM minmax.h: update some comments

David Laight David.Laight@ACULAB.COM minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org minmax: fix up min3() and max3() too

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org minmax: improve macro expansion and type checking

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org minmax: simplify min()/max()/clamp() implementation

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org minmax: make generic MIN() and MAX() macros available everywhere

Lukasz Czapnik lukasz.czapnik@intel.com i40e: add validation for ring_len param

Justin Bronder jsbronder@cold-front.org i40e: increase max descriptors for XL710

Nirmoy Das nirmoyd@nvidia.com drm/ast: Use msleep instead of mdelay for edid read

Hans de Goede hansg@kernel.org gpiolib: Extend software-node support to support secondary software-nodes

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz loop: Avoid updating block size under exclusive owner

David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com mm/migrate_device: don't add folio to be freed to LRU in migrate_device_finalize()

Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com mm: migrate_device: use more folio in migrate_device_finalize()

Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli@broadcom.com ARM: bcm: Select ARM_GIC_V3 for ARCH_BRCMSTB

Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org s390/cpum_cf: Fix uninitialized warning after backport of ce971233242b

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de fbcon: Fix OOB access in font allocation

Samasth Norway Ananda samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com fbcon: fix integer overflow in fbcon_do_set_font

Jinjiang Tu tujinjiang@huawei.com mm/hugetlb: fix folio is still mapped when deleted

Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org kmsan: fix out-of-bounds access to shadow memory

Zhen Ni zhen.ni@easystack.cn afs: Fix potential null pointer dereference in afs_put_server

Nobuhiro Iwamatsu iwamatsu@nigauri.org ARM: dts: socfpga: sodia: Fix mdio bus probe and PHY address

Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org tracing: dynevent: Add a missing lockdown check on dynevent

Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org crypto: af_alg - Fix incorrect boolean values in af_alg_ctx

Lukasz Czapnik lukasz.czapnik@intel.com i40e: improve VF MAC filters accounting

Lukasz Czapnik lukasz.czapnik@intel.com i40e: add mask to apply valid bits for itr_idx

Lukasz Czapnik lukasz.czapnik@intel.com i40e: add max boundary check for VF filters

Lukasz Czapnik lukasz.czapnik@intel.com i40e: fix validation of VF state in get resources

Lukasz Czapnik lukasz.czapnik@intel.com i40e: fix input validation logic for action_meta

Lukasz Czapnik lukasz.czapnik@intel.com i40e: fix idx validation in config queues msg

Lukasz Czapnik lukasz.czapnik@intel.com i40e: fix idx validation in i40e_validate_queue_map

Amit Chaudhari amitchaudhari@mac.com HID: asus: add support for missing PX series fn keys

Sang-Heon Jeon ekffu200098@gmail.com smb: client: fix wrong index reference in smb2_compound_op()

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de futex: Prevent use-after-free during requeue-PI

Zabelin Nikita n.zabelin@mt-integration.ru drm/gma500: Fix null dereference in hdmi teardown

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org octeontx2-pf: Fix potential use after free in otx2_tc_add_flow()

Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: suppress -EINVAL errors for bridge FDB entries added to the CPU port

Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: move gswip_add_single_port_br() call to port_setup()

Martin Schiller ms@dev.tdt.de net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: do also enable or disable cpu port

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com selftests: fib_nexthops: Fix creation of non-FDB nexthops

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com nexthop: Forbid FDB status change while nexthop is in a group

Jason Baron jbaron@akamai.com net: allow alloc_skb_with_frags() to use MAX_SKB_FRAGS

Alok Tiwari alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com bnxt_en: correct offset handling for IPv6 destination address

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de vhost: Take a reference on the task in struct vhost_task.

Luiz Augusto von Dentz luiz.von.dentz@intel.com Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix UAF in hci_acl_create_conn_sync

Luiz Augusto von Dentz luiz.von.dentz@intel.com Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix hci_resume_advertising_sync

Petr Malat oss@malat.biz ethernet: rvu-af: Remove slash from the driver name

Stéphane Grosjean stephane.grosjean@hms-networks.com can: peak_usb: fix shift-out-of-bounds issue

Vincent Mailhol mailhol@kernel.org can: mcba_usb: populate ndo_change_mtu() to prevent buffer overflow

Vincent Mailhol mailhol@kernel.org can: sun4i_can: populate ndo_change_mtu() to prevent buffer overflow

Vincent Mailhol mailhol@kernel.org can: hi311x: populate ndo_change_mtu() to prevent buffer overflow

Vincent Mailhol mailhol@kernel.org can: etas_es58x: populate ndo_change_mtu() to prevent buffer overflow

Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net xfrm: xfrm_alloc_spi shouldn't use 0 as SPI

Leon Hwang leon.hwang@linux.dev bpf: Reject bpf_timer for PREEMPT_RT

Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be can: rcar_can: rcar_can_resume(): fix s2ram with PSCI

James Guan guan_yufei@163.com wifi: virt_wifi: Fix page fault on connect

Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: server: don't use delayed_work for post_recv_credits_work

Christian Loehle christian.loehle@arm.com cpufreq: Initialize cpufreq-based invariance before subsys

Jihed Chaibi jihed.chaibi.dev@gmail.com ARM: dts: kirkwood: Fix sound DAI cells for OpenRD clients

Peng Fan peng.fan@nxp.com arm64: dts: imx8mp: Correct thermal sensor index

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm: folio_may_be_lru_cached() unless folio_test_large()

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/gup: local lru_add_drain() to avoid lru_add_drain_all()

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration

Shivank Garg shivankg@amd.com mm: add folio_expected_ref_count() for reference count calculation

David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com mm/gup: revert "mm: gup: fix infinite loop within __get_longterm_locked"

Or Har-Toov ohartoov@nvidia.com IB/mlx5: Fix obj_type mismatch for SRQ event subscriptions

qaqland anguoli@uniontech.com ALSA: usb-audio: Add mute TLV for playback volumes on more devices

Cryolitia PukNgae cryolitia@uniontech.com ALSA: usb-audio: move mixer_quirks' min_mute into common quirk

noble.yang noble.yang@comtrue-inc.com ALSA: usb-audio: Add DSD support for Comtrue USB Audio device

Heikki Krogerus heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com i2c: designware: Add quirk for Intel Xe

Benoît Monin benoit.monin@bootlin.com mmc: sdhci-cadence: add Mobileye eyeQ support

Jiayi Li lijiayi@kylinos.cn usb: core: Add 0x prefix to quirks debug output

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Fix build with CONFIG_INPUT=n

Chen Ni nichen@iscas.ac.cn ALSA: usb-audio: Convert comma to semicolon

Kerem Karabay kekrby@gmail.com HID: multitouch: specify that Apple Touch Bar is direct

Kerem Karabay kekrby@gmail.com HID: multitouch: take cls->maxcontacts into account for Apple Touch Bar even without a HID_DG_CONTACTMAX field

Kerem Karabay kekrby@gmail.com HID: multitouch: support getting the tip state from HID_DG_TOUCH fields in Apple Touch Bar

Kerem Karabay kekrby@gmail.com HID: multitouch: Get the contact ID from HID_DG_TRANSDUCER_INDEX fields in case of Apple Touch Bar

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com ALSA: usb-audio: Add mixer quirk for Sony DualSense PS5

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com ALSA: usb-audio: Remove unneeded wmb() in mixer_quirks

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com ALSA: usb-audio: Simplify NULL comparison in mixer_quirks

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com ALSA: usb-audio: Avoid multiple assignments in mixer_quirks

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com ALSA: usb-audio: Drop unnecessary parentheses in mixer_quirks

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix block comments in mixer_quirks

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp firewire: core: fix overlooked update of subsystem ABI version

Alok Tiwari alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com scsi: ufs: mcq: Fix memory allocation checks for SQE and CQE

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- .../dts/intel/socfpga/socfpga_cyclone5_sodia.dts | 6 +- .../boot/dts/marvell/kirkwood-openrd-client.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp.dtsi | 4 +- arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_cf.c | 4 +- arch/um/drivers/mconsole_user.c | 2 + drivers/block/loop.c | 40 ++- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 20 +- drivers/edac/skx_common.h | 1 - drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c | 2 +- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 19 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h | 2 + .../gpu/drm/amd/display/modules/hdcp/hdcp_ddc.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/powerplay/hwmgr/ppevvmath.h | 14 +- .../drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu11/sienna_cichlid_ppt.c | 2 + .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu13/smu_v13_0_0_ppt.c | 3 + .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu13/smu_v13_0_7_ppt.c | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu_cmn.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_dp.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_hdmi.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen_cs.c | 2 + drivers/hid/hid-asus.c | 3 + drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c | 45 +++- drivers/hwmon/adt7475.c | 24 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-platdrv.c | 7 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c | 1 + drivers/input/touchscreen/cyttsp4_core.c | 2 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-sun6i-r.c | 2 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv0367_priv.h | 3 + drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-cadence.c | 11 + drivers/net/can/rcar/rcar_can.c | 8 +- drivers/net/can/spi/hi311x.c | 1 + drivers/net/can/sun4i_can.c | 1 + drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_core.c | 3 +- drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_devlink.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/usb/mcba_usb.c | 1 + drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c | 2 +- drivers/net/dsa/lantiq_gswip.c | 41 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_tc.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c | 25 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 26 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 110 ++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.h | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cgx.c | 3 +- .../net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_tc.c | 2 +- drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/virtual/virt_wifi.c | 4 +- drivers/nfc/pn544/i2c.c | 2 - drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c | 1 - drivers/scsi/isci/init.c | 6 +- .../pci/hive_isp_css_include/math_support.h | 5 - drivers/ufs/core/ufs-mcq.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 2 +- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 13 +- fs/afs/server.c | 3 +- fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c | 2 +- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 10 +- fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c | 2 +- fs/smb/server/transport_rdma.c | 18 +- include/crypto/if_alg.h | 2 +- include/linux/compiler.h | 9 + include/linux/minmax.h | 234 +++++++++------- include/linux/mm.h | 55 ++++ include/linux/swap.h | 10 + include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h | 21 ++ kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 4 + kernel/futex/requeue.c | 6 +- kernel/trace/preemptirq_delay_test.c | 2 - kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c | 4 + kernel/vhost_task.c | 3 +- lib/btree.c | 1 - lib/decompress_unlzma.c | 2 + lib/vsprintf.c | 2 +- mm/gup.c | 28 +- mm/kmsan/core.c | 10 +- mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c | 16 ++ mm/migrate_device.c | 42 ++- mm/mlock.c | 6 +- mm/swap.c | 4 +- mm/zsmalloc.c | 2 - net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 26 +- net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c | 7 + net/core/skbuff.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/nexthop.c | 7 + net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 3 + sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c | 295 +++++++++++++++++++-- sound/usb/quirks.c | 24 +- sound/usb/usbaudio.h | 4 + tools/testing/selftests/mm/mremap_test.c | 2 + tools/testing/selftests/net/fib_nexthops.sh | 12 +- tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c | 2 + 93 files changed, 1031 insertions(+), 363 deletions(-)